Daniel Greenberg Quotes

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me.

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.